Paracont

In 1989 while attending college at Osnabrück, Germany students Daniel Over and Oliver Cloppenburg met and bonded over their mutual appreciation of electronic music and dark industrial sounds and decided to try their hand at it. While pursuing their studies in economics the duo quietly honed their skills at composing their own sound, a fusion of complex brooding electro-industrial and catchy danceable EBM music under the name of Paralysed Control.

Corresponding with leading electro-industrial artists at the time such as Marc Verhaeghen (Klinik) and André Schmechta (A.K.A. Sevren Ni-Arb of X-Marks The Pedwalk) they learned to polish their dense, yet crisp atmospheric sound to a professional quality. Shortening their name to Paracont and operating under the pseudonyms of Arkine Demag (Daniel Over) and Nevo U-Myn (Oliver Cloppenburg) in 1993 they released their first track 'Statics' on several industrial compilations (by Gothic Arts Records and Celtic Circle Productions) to a warm reception.

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